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Re: warning message in standby

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-14T14:56:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 10:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> I'm totally unimpressed by the argument that log-filtering
> applications don't know enough to pay attention to LOG messages.
> There are already a lot of those that are quite important to notice.

We have a log level where 1 log entry in a million is something serious
and all the rest are generally ignorable. That situation leads to the
cognitive phenomena is known as "normalization of deviance", a term
coined in the wake of the Challenger disaster.

Should I be downgrading Hot Standby breakages to LOG? That will
certainly help high availability as well.

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 Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com